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Where would YOU serve in WW2?

Discussion in 'What If - Other' started by Kai-Petri, Oct 13, 2002.

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  1. Stefan

    Stefan Cavalry Rupert

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    Personally I would rather not serve. I really have great difficulty deciding where I would like to serve as really, risking death anywere seems much the same to me, would canada be an option?
     
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  2. Battery Steele

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    I can walk alot farther than I can swim,brother...

    However,during World War Two,I would have wanted to have been stationed aboard the Motor Torpedo Boats in the Pacific.

    A 'shoot and scoot' war in the backwaters of Micronesia.
     
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  3. reddog2k

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    I would want to fight the japs on the bataan peninsula. Though I would not want to be involved in the bataan death march.
     
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  4. Munken

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    As Allied, i would want be a Commando.

    As Axis i would want to be a Fallshirmjaeger (paratrooper).

    As Comintern i would want be a sniper.
     
    Munken, Jun 15, 2003
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  5. David Barton (DB) Mathis

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    US:

    I would probaly want to server in the army signal corps like my grandfather. If not that a sniper!

    German:

    Sniper(Scharfschütze) :cool:
     
    David Barton (DB) Mathis, Jun 15, 2003
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  6. Munken

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    In a direct translate, is Scharfschütze sharpshooter, or marksman.
     
    Munken, Jun 15, 2003
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  7. David Barton (DB) Mathis

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    Noted! what would sniper be?

    Thanks,
     
    David Barton (DB) Mathis, Jun 15, 2003
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  8. Munken

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    It has almost the same meaning but i don't know what the direct term of 'sniper' is in german. I'm swedish if you read in my facts. And we in Sweden does not have a direct term for 'sniper' either. We call our snipers "krypskyttar" wich could be translated as crawlshooter (kryp=crawl, skytt=shooter).
     
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  9. David Barton (DB) Mathis

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    Cool! :cool:
     
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  10. Stefan

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    The translation I get is Heckenschütze, scharfschutzen were normally men who were good shots and so were issued a small scope for their rifle, usually one per platoon I think.
     
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  11. camz

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    as im from australia i would like to fight in any australian division i the westen front as i have seen the terrible things the jap's would do to prisoners in the pacfic.They didnt even have a word for retreatIn the battle of kocoda (dont know the spelling exactly) the commanding officer had to tell the troops to advance to the rear.

    i am new to this forum [​IMG]
     
    camz, Jun 21, 2003
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  12. Carl G. E. von Mannerheim

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    I'm probably going to still have to go with an American Officer in the Philippine (12th) Division at the onset of the war in the pacific. That is, fighting on Bataan and maybe even Corregidor.


    There only on problem with that...

    Either 3 years in a jap 'POW' camp. or a guerilla war in the Philippines.


    CvM
     
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  13. Stefan

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    Ok then, if I have to choose somewhere I would go for the Womens Royal Auxilliary Balloon Corps.

    That or Howards Coy of the Ox and Bucks
     
    Stefan, Jun 22, 2003
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  14. David Barton (DB) Mathis

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    Welcome Camz!
     
    David Barton (DB) Mathis, Jun 22, 2003
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  15. reddog2k

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    I agree with yuo Carl except I would want to be a Philipine officer in a scout regiment so I could escape Bataan and continue the war as a guerilla.
     
    reddog2k, Jun 22, 2003
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  16. Carl G. E. von Mannerheim

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    Well, presumably i'd make it through the front lines when bataan crumbled in early April of 42

    Then its geurilla all the way

    CvM
     
    Carl G. E. von Mannerheim, Jun 22, 2003
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  17. Pure_Chaos

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    the RAF spitfire in the battle of britan, that would be gr8. it would be hard but i would be determand to win. Or the Aerican 101st Airborne, they did so much in the warm, i would have loved to serve with them :p
     
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  18. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    I think weve had this before, I ended up on corvette in Atlantic, but no Im with Stefan now.

    Stefan come and join me, were going to be Churchills speech writers. Nice and safe, lots of whiskey and cigars, travel to see the great leaders and battle spots, once troops have moved the fighing on of course....Always best time....
     
    urqh, Jul 6, 2003
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  19. SpitfireMkII

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    American Front Line Combat Infantry...or maybe a waist gunner on a B-17..either way, it'd be in the European AO.
     
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  20. Stefan

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    Sounds great, I have a better idea though, Rosevelts speech writers! Cigars, Whiskey, light work load (we will get others to do it) and no threat of being bombed! Whatcha think?
     
    Stefan, Jul 11, 2003
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